Ashes is a personal dedication to my wife's mother Serena. The sounds are taken in North Goa, India, during our last journey.

Ashes

EAS016 - QVARK

Milan, Italy, 1983. In the midst of the 80’s economic boom, 
which gave an injection of optimism after the heavily political 70’s,
a group of young local musicians meet every night in a basement 
to rehearse and record a peculiar breed of Italian disco music.
Originated from the ashes of various other projects, 
and rooted in the broader jazz-funk tradition,
the group creates music which is equally inspired
by contemporary fusion as well as by the first wave 
of the italo-disco sound. Fast forward 35 years 
and the genuinely mediterranean flavor of Qvark’s 
demo recordings are still enjoyable for the groovy quirkiness 
of a project which has been to long forgotten.
After an intense work of audio restoration of such demo tapes, 
heavily affected by time, Early Sounds is pleased to present 
a compilation which is an important find to define the sound
of late 70's and early 80's Italian club sound.

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[EAS016] Qvark - Qvark

<< A belated Happy New Year's edition >>
We have such a tradition, to show another format in the happy new year : )

- Dj set recorded at Korner in Taipei 16.12.2017 -

Franz is the head of Slow Motion, an Italian dance label based in Berlin, he has releases on World Unknown, Tusk Wax and Bordello a Parigi and with his side project Studio Luce on Cocktail d´Amore Music. Franz also promotes many events around the german capital such as the monthly Wrong Era or Discoteca Paradiso Parties, New Dance Fantas or Magic Waves Festival. Beside long time collaboration with Sameheads he is regular at Griessmuhle and Salon zur Wilden Renate.

Follow guest:
https://soundcloud.com/franz-scala

Follow crew:
https://soundcloud.com/slow-motion-records

P/S:
Happy New Year 
<3

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Serenades Podcast #42 (HNY Edition) - Franz Scala

Earth Explorer 3

Summer Haze is a collection of live sessions I recorded in my studio in Shanghai
between July and September 2017.

instruments and effects: 

Roland TR - 707
Roland SH 101
Roland Juno 6
TB 303 Bass Line Clone
Volca Sample
Boss BX-800 Analog Mixer 
Electro Harmonix Bass Micro Synth
Boss RV6
tc electronic Flashback

enjoy!

Summer Haze. Analog Studio Session 01

Nu Guinea - "Nuova Napoli" LP
NG Records (NG01)
out in April 2018

https://www.discogs.com/release/11600879

additional infos:



All tracks written, arranged and produced by Nu Guinea beside B4 (Parev' Ajere) which is a cover version of the track Mr. Business by the french band Edition Spéciale

Credits: 

Massimo Di Lena - Drum Programming 
Lucio Aquilina - Keyboards - Piano 
Andrea De Fazio - Drums 
Adam Pawel - Percussion 
Roberto Badoglio - Electric Bass (A1, B1, B2, B3) 
Fabiana Martone - Lead Vocals (A2, A3, B3, B4) 
Pietro Santangelo - Sax (A1, A3, B2, B3) 
Marcello Giannini - Electric Guitar (A3, B1, B4) 

Artwork: Guglielmo Corduas 

Electronic Instruments used: 
Linn 9000 drum machine 
Kawai Ep 308 electroacoustic piano Fender Rhodes Mk I 
Roland Jupiter 6 
Korg M3 

* Lyrics of “Je Vulesse” extract of the poem “Je vulesse truvà pace” from the poet Eduardo De Filippo 
* Parev’ Ajere is a cover of the track “Mr.Business” from the french band “Edition Speciale” 

Recorded and conceived at the NG TOWER STUDIOS in Berlin

Nuova Napoli

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Nu Guinea - "Nuova Napoli" LP (NG01) excerpts

Smooth, Italo boogie from @nu-guinea taken from their new album Nuova Napoli, the result of extensive research into the funk and disco sound of their Neapolitan hometown.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2018/03/02/premiere-nu-guinea-ddoje-facce/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/ddoje-facce

Nu Guinea - Ddoje Facce (STW Premiere)

Asian Edits vol.1 

Na Mi - 허수아비 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7igBFJx_Mo

Na Mi - 허수아비 (Altieri Edit)

Mystic Jungle is back with 4 killer tunes!! Four slabs of stylish and edgy electronic Italo-Disco cuts by the head honcho of Periodica Records and Futuribile Record Club. Four essential exotic tunes coming straight from his West Hill Studio in Italy.

PRD1013 • Mystic Jungle - "Jurakan"

With pleasure and honor we welcome friend and maestro Gigi Masin (@gigi-masin) to the series. Q&A (short version) below.

www.musicfrommemory.com

MFM: Ciao Gigi. So, you first started experimenting with music in the late 70's, please can you tell a bit about how it was to be a young aspiring Italian musician back then? 

GM: Here? Nobody care about young musicians... if you try to make some new sound (no pop music, no opera, no symphony, no dance) this country is really a bad choice.

MFM: How did you discover all those artists and their music, in Italy where all was about pop and opera, and while internet was hardly known?

GM: Not hardly known, just it didn’t exist... But good radios, good books and good concerts made the difference. 

MFM: You used to be a fulltime radio DJ for quite some years, right? Can you tell a bit more about that period and how it happened? 

GM: My dream nr.1 was to be a radio dj when i was 12 and the nights were devoted to Radio Luxembourg. I was 18 when in Italy the Government gave permission to start using the FM frequencies to broadcast music and voices.. Radio Luxembourg was a private radio, broadcasting from the Luxembourg but the studios were in London, it was pretty famous in the 70s for their late shows. 

MFM: Did it feel a little controversial to be playing other people's music while you wanted to be a fulltime musician yourself, or did it maybe even help you to get closer to your goals?

GM: No need to be a musician at that time also if I was used to write and sing my songs to friends but, true.. searching for new music and for new records (it was really difficult in Italy years ago..) helped a lot to think on music in a different way.

MFM: In a different way, could you explain that a little maybe?

GM: Television, radio, newspapers.. only mainstream music, big names.. if you’d like to find something different or just exploring new sounds you have to travel a lot to find a nice record shop, or recording a lot of tape cassettes from friends’ records.

MFM: Your works consist of quite some collaborations, Gaussian Curve of course being one of them. Is there a specific reason for that, do you feel more inspired when collaborating?

GM: Isolation is absurd.. you have always to learn something, stay human.. Collaboration for me is essential, unique, for my music and for my spirit.. I’d like in the future to work with acoustic instruments, maybe a little orchestra.. there’s a lot to explore with electronics, love the idea to write songs for a beautiful voice, someday.

MFM: Quite a lot of your works got discovered and found a wider audience years after it was created. How do you feel about that? Do you think your story would have been different when you would have grown up elsewhere and some years later? 

GM: I think the music is not to be hidden in cages, let it go around and sometimes the music makes the difference between a grey life and a dream came true. Most of the music discovered in the past years was made only in vinyl and simply disappeared in the cd era. Only because hundred blessed dj became to dig for old and underrated music we are here, and not on the sofa just thinking on the past years.

MFM: Mille grazie for joining the MFM mix series, such a pleasure and honor to have you on board! For someone who used to be a professional radio DJ for years, did you have a specific idea or feeling or purpose before/while making the mix?

GM: MFM is always to be back home for me.. the mix is really what I’d like to listen in a sunny spring morning in Venice, while chatting and drinking with friends.

MFM Mix 004: Gigi Masin

September 1981, italian Soundscaper from Napoli.
My research wants to investigate the contrast between Geophonies, Biophonies and Anthrophonies
Interested in Soundscapes, Drones, Soundtrack, Fieldrecording, Video and Photography.

Studies in Music Technology at Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford, UK.

francesco.addati@gmail.com


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Francesco Paolo Addati